Ground-anchor.



B. W. P. GOGHLIN. GROUND ANCHOR. APPLIOATIO N FILED DEO.9 1910.

1,084,695; 'PatentedJan.20, 1914.

BERNARD WILLIAM mam COGHLIN, 0E MONTREAL, oUEBEo, CANADA.

GROUND-ANCHOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application meant-umber 9, 1310. Serial no. 598,497. I

Patented Jan. 20, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Bnnnann WILLIAM PALIN OOGHLIN, of the cit ofMontreal in the Province of Quebec, anada, manu acturer, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Ground-Anchors; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same.

The invention may be said to consist of the combination and constructionof parts hereinafter described andillustrated in the accompanyingdrawings in which similar reference characters indicate the same partsand wherein- J Figure l is a side elevation of my improved'groundanchor; Fig. 2 is a plan view of. the top thereof drawn on a largerscale, the guy being removed; Fig.3 is a longitudinal sectional viewthereof, the head of the rod being shown in elevation; Fig. 4 is a sideelevation of the sleeve ready to have the guy connected thereto; andFig.5 is a view illustrating the ground anchor when in position to be driveninto the ground.

Heretofore the drivingbar of the anchor was formed with an eye at itsupper end and the force of the blows on such end when the latter wasbeing driven into the ground, compressed the eye and made the latteruseless for connecting the guy to the bar. To overcome this I provide ametal sleeve slidabl mounted on the bar 0 and provided with eyes 0' forthe guy. The upper portion d of this sleeve is of larger diameter thanthe lower portion e, thev portion f of the'hole therein being also ofgreater diameter than the portion 9 in the lowerpart which latterportion of the hole is of just sufficient diameter to effect a slidingfit on the bar thus forming midway of the length of the sleeve aninternal annular shoulder It to be presently further alluded to. At 0p.-posite sides of the upper portion of the sleeve are eyes 0'communicating with the hole 7'' and sltuated a'short distance above theshoulder it, such eyes receiving the guy j-whichis accommodated ingrooves formed in the sleeve and communicating with the eyes 0. Thesegrooves are preferably convex as at k,

and are flared at the top. The end of the bar is upset to present around driving head m of larger diameter than the main length of the bar,and adapted to enter the upper portion of the sleeve, and engage theannular shoulder h, thereby transmitting the 'a' substantially flatstrains on the gu to the anchor. When the anchor is to be sleeve isallowed to slide down the bar 0 (see Fig. 5) the exposed head m presentsa strilzing surface for the hammer without exposlng the eyes 0 todamage. After the anchor is driven the guy wire is attached to thesleeve. I

Althou h I have described my invention as applie to ground anchors, itmay be appliedadvantageouslyto any means requiring tov be driven andhave guys attached thereto. What I claim is as follows riven into theground the 1; In a ground anchor,the combination 'I with a metal barhaving an impact head at one end, of a sleeve swiveled upon the bar andadapted to freely pass to a point below the impact head, said sleevehaving eyes therem to receive a guy wire,and an interone end, of asleeve swiveled upon the bar and adapted to freely passto a point belowthe impact head, said sleeve comprising a lower portion having-a holetherethrough, below and of less diameter than the impact head andcompletely encircling-the bar, and

diametrically opposlte eyes therein and formed with a hole therethrou'ghof greater:

diameter than the impact hea completely encircling the latter andcommumcating with the hole of the lower portion and an internal angularshoulder formed by the two holes, at a point below the impact head.

' 3. In a ground anchor,.the combination with a metal bar having animpact head at one end, of a sleeve swiveled upon the 'bar and adaptedto freely pass to a point below the impact head, said sleeye comprisinga lower portion having a hole there through, below and of less diameterthan the impact head and completely encircling the bar, and a sustantially flat upper portion having diametrically o therein andpresenting. externa grooves extending upwardly and flared -outwardlyupper portion having posite eyes from said eyes and havingconvexed'bottoms, said flat upper portion of the sleeve" iio na1 angularshoulder formefi by the two having a hole therethrough at greaterdiameter than the impact head, completely encircling the latter andcammunicating' with the hqle of 111% lower portion, and an inter name tothis specification, in the presence of two subscmbing wltnesses.

BERNARD WILLIAM PALIN COGHLIN.

Witnesses I ALEX CAERRIE, FRED. T. SHAW.

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